Timeline for Irregular conjugation of the verb "blame"
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| Apr 16, 2017 at 16:51 | comment | added | BillJ | Yes: that's fine. "Be" and a handful of other verbs take hollow to-infinitivals as complement, so we get "You are to blame __". The missing element is the object of the verb "blame" and is represented by gap, the meaning of which is recoverable from an antecedent. In this case, the antecedent is "you": We understand that "You are to blame you (yourself)". | |
| Apr 16, 2017 at 16:13 | vote | accept | Juan Zarate | ||
| Apr 16, 2017 at 16:12 | answer | added | RaceYouAnytime | timeline score: 2 | |
| Apr 16, 2017 at 15:35 | comment | added | Man_From_India | This answer might help - ell.stackexchange.com/a/46339/3463 | |
| Apr 16, 2017 at 15:31 | comment | added | Mohd Zulkanien Sarbini | I think it's possible, but I can't think of any reason to do so. Why not, just say "I blame..". And maybe this could help. | |
| Apr 16, 2017 at 15:24 | history | edited | Juan Zarate | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 16, 2017 at 15:15 | history | asked | Juan Zarate | CC BY-SA 3.0 |